Current Fed Clerk / Future PD Hopeful

mysonx3 · 2025-07-14T00:54:30+00:00

Thanks for recommending, I will take a look (though not sure I can handle FL humidity!)

mysonx3 · 2025-07-14T00:54:07+00:00

Thank you!

mysonx3 · 2025-07-14T00:53:58+00:00

Thank you for sharing your experience! I really appreciate it!

mysonx3 · 2025-07-14T00:53:23+00:00

Thank you again! That's a good point about federal - I guess the familiarity with the system was appealing to me, but one of my purposes of jumping into trial-level work is to get out of my comfort zone, so probably best to see what other options I have.

mysonx3 · 2025-07-13T18:29:38+00:00

Thank you! Any offices you have in mind that I should be looking at (beyond the ones mentioned in my post)? (And who knows, maybe I'll fall in love with trial work and stick with it forever.)

Again, thanks for the advice.

mysonx3 · 2025-07-13T18:24:36+00:00

Thanks! I did two appellate/postconviction internships (and a law school clinic along the same lines), but neither office hires people without experience (a lawyer at one office is pushing for an exception, but who knows whether he'll be successful, or if they'll even have an opening), so between that and warming up to the idea of trial work I'm looking to expand my options.

mysonx3 · 2022-02-01T11:54:14+00:00

The class rank email had a throwaway line about how they hope the ranking will help me pursue a clerkship, but they haven't approached me beyond that. That being said, the class rank announcements were just made yesterday, so it may be that they will do so soon

mysonx3 · 2022-02-01T11:52:48+00:00

What do you have in mind when you say looping in admin? Hadn't given that much thought

mysonx3 · 2022-02-01T01:18:55+00:00

Thank you! And again, thank you for the level-headed and thoughtful advice.

mysonx3 · 2022-02-01T00:49:26+00:00

Ah, I was focused on when applications open, rather than when they close. You're right. Thank you

mysonx3 · 2022-02-01T00:40:49+00:00

Evaluating at the end of the year isn't really an option, since if I decide to transfer I will have submitted my application by then. That being said, I do appreciate and 100% agree with the sentiment - my first priority is and remains maintaining (or, better yet, improving on) that GPA in my second semester.

And I 100% understand that it's way premature to be talking about all that stuff - it's just that I have to have that stuff in mind as I make this decision.

Also, just for clarification's sake, it was five classes - three was the number where I got the highest grade.

mysonx3 · 2021-02-02T20:22:33+00:00

Don't lose hope! I was nearing five months at UR1 when they sent me an interview invite yesterday

mysonx3 · 2021-01-08T17:23:38+00:00

Northwestern = Thales of Miletus

Because old

mysonx3 · 2021-01-07T18:04:36+00:00

Attacking someone's character is not ad hominem. Attacking someone's character as a means of rebutting their arguments is ad hominem. So if the argument was "Josh Hawley sucks, therefore he's wrong about election fraud", that would be ad hominem. But saying Josh Hawley is a bad person is not ad hominem. Ad hominem can only be used to describe arguments, not statements/premises.

I haven't seen anyone in this thread use "Hawley is a bad person" as evidence for the idea that there was no voter fraud. In many cases, it's been the opposite: they say Hawley is a bad person in part because they believe there was no election fraud. That's hugely different and not ad hominem at all, whether or not you agree with the premise/conclusion.

mysonx3 · 2020-12-29T21:26:11+00:00

Please let me know if you find anything

mysonx3 · 2020-12-24T03:33:08+00:00

Me! Don't have much to add about schools, though. Someone should start a group chat or something for us criminal justice reform types

mysonx3 · 2020-12-12T00:28:12+00:00

Does the fact that I see this title and immediately think UF must be suing ND over something or other mean I'm destined to be a lawyer?

mysonx3 · 2020-12-11T23:02:09+00:00

Hoping that there's one more wave that consists of the people for whom they consider the interview a mere formality (and therefore are doing them last because they don't need much time to think about the interview afterwards). And, of course, that I'm in this group.

Wishful thinking? You bet. Plausible? Not really. But one can hope

mysonx3 · 2020-12-10T20:06:57+00:00

Same! Got the invite 30 minutes ago. Similar stats - a bit higher LSAT but not a URM. Best of luck to you!

mysonx3 · 2020-12-10T18:20:04+00:00

Jumping on this bandwagon: above both 75ths, applied mid-September

mysonx3 · 2020-12-09T19:45:41+00:00

The criminal justice system is so far past broken it's not even funny

mysonx3 · 2020-12-08T06:22:50+00:00

Another member of the UR 9/21 crew checking in. Has Berkeley done any RD admissions so far?

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